exercised
adjUS /ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪzd/ · UK /ˈɛk.sə.saɪzd/
Etymology From exercise + -ed.
1
The property of having been exercised, used, acted upon.
2
Experienced, practiced, trained.
- Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang.1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘We Frolic while ’Tis May’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 20:
- Derived terms
- nonexercised, underexercised, unexercised